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The Clore Gallery forms the wing of the Tate Britain in London that houses the Turner Bequest--oils, watercolors, sketchbooks, and documents related to Joseph Mallord William Turner. Next month many of the works of art normally on view there will travel to the United States as part of a major exhibition devoted to Turner, which will be at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D. C., from October 1 to January 6, 2008, and subsequently at the Dallas Museum of Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. This has left a large gap at the Clore Gallery, which has led the Tate to organize an extensive survey of some 165 of Turner's watercolors that are normally in storage.
Turner originally trained under an architect, so many of his early works contain superb architectural detail. He then went on to depict landscapes, both actual ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Turner watercolors.(Report from Europe)(Joseph Mallord William...